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Acknowledgements

I should like to express my

gratitude to the following

companies, and individuals

without whose generous help

this book would have remained

a project only:

The Lockheed Califomia Co

for its exceptional assistance

and advice, especially Robert

C. Ferguson; Shirley Lee

(Trans World Airlines); Peter

Joel (Pan American World

Airways); Ken Groves and John

J. White (QANTAS); Christine

Howarth (Lufthansa); Bob

Harris (Air France), Rod Barlow

(KLM); Lizzan Peppard (Aer

Lingus); Martin Thompson

(Northwest Orient); Guilherme

Tully (VARIG SA); Jane

Whigham (Air Canada); the

Public Relations Departments

of Air India International,

Eastern Air Lines and Swissair.

I am indebted to the

following for permission to use

their photographs: Brian

Pickering (Military Aircraft

Photographs); Quadrant Picture

Library (Flight International)

and Roger P. Wasley.

Finally, but by no means

least, I am grateful to Peter

J. Marson and Air Britain for

permission to glean certain

information from their massive

tome devoted to the

Constellation, a volume I can

recommend to anyone wishing

to further their research into

registrations, construction

numbers (cln) and individual

Constellation histories.

Contents

Introduction 5

1 Background and Concept 6

2 Design and Development 12

3 Construction, Prototype and C-69

4 The L-049/749 Series 24

5 The Super Constellation 32

6 Turbo-Compounding and the Super

Connie 38

7 Improvements, Turbo-Prop Projects, the

L-I049H 43

8 Military Constellations

9 Starliner - the Ultimate

Constellation 56

10 Starliner - End of an Era

11 Major Airlines and the

Constellation 68

12 The Connie in Latin America and on

Secondary Routes

13 Old Connies Never Die. . .

14 The Super Connie in Airline

Service 90

15 Super Connies and Starliners in the Jet

Age 98

Appendices 1 Technical Data 107

2 Service with Principal Airline

Fleets

First published 1987

ISBN0711017352

book may be reproduced or

transmitted in any form or by any

means, electronic or mechanical,

including photo-copying, recording

or by any information storage and

retrieval system, without permission

from the Publisher in writing.

110

Bibliography

112

Published by Ian Allan Ltd, Shepperton, Surrey; and printed by

Ian Allan Printing Ltd at their works at Coombelands in Runnymede, England

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